Tulare County Biographies
FRANK L. BLAIN
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
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The well known farmer and cattleman whose name heads this sketch is a native of
California who made his start and has won success in life within a few miles of
the place of his birth. He first saw the light of day in Visalia, Tulare county,
in 1880. After finishing a course at the public schools of the town he took a
six months' course at the Stockton Business College in 1899, and in the
following year he took over all of his father's large ranch interests, which he
conducted successfully during the ensuing three years. In 1904 he moved to his
present ranch of eighty acres, to which he has added one hundred and sixty acres
opposite, built him a comfortable bungalow and in a general way got ready for
success as a farmer and cattle raiser. He put twenty acres in peaches of the
Tuscan and Muir varieties, gave forty acres to alfalfa, prepared for extensive
operations as a stockman, and cleared and cleaned up the ranch, greatly
improving the property in every way. In partnership with his sister, he has
taken possession of all of the real estate left by their father and is managing
the same with much success. He devotes himself principally to the raising of
beef cattle, is acquiring large cattle ranges and bids fair soon to rank among
the leading cattlemen of the county. He and his sister have seven thousand acres
of range land in the mountains, on which they have from seven hundred to eight
hundred head of cattle, also thirteen hundred and sixty acres of good cattle
land north of Visalia. He owns one hundred and sixty acres near the San Joaquin
Hill. Mr. Blain controls a total of five good ranch properties in Tulare county.
Busy as he necessarily is with his cattle-raising industry, Mr. Blain finds some
time to devote to general interests, especially to such as affect men who get
their living off the soil. As an instance, it should be noted that he is a
director of the People's Co-operative Ditch Company, a concern which is doing
good work in the way of irrigation. He is not an active politician, but views
all public questions with a patriotic intelligence. In November, 1906, he
married Miss Bertha Givens, of Californian birth, and they have a daughter whom
they have named Carroll.
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches -
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, pp. 533-534